Virginia GDA

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Interesting read from FL TS

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Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
From U.S. Soccer's GDA FAQs:
"The Girls' Development Academy firmly believes that the traditional open tryout is a highly flawed and ineffective model for player identification and evaluation. The expectation is that Academy clubs move to using a more systematic scouting model to identify and recruit new talents and invite these players to trial for an extended period with the current player pool."

The LA Premier FC tryouts below sure look a lot like the old highly flawed and ineffective model.....

The tryout season is upon us at LA Premier.
This tryout is for girls born in 2003 and 2004, wishing to play in the US Girls Academy.

Held at La Canada HS Stadium Field.

We encourage players to attend all tryouts if possible.
Check-in is 15 minutes before your start time and pre-registration is strongly advised.

Fri, Feb 3: 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Girls 2003 and 2004 ACADEMY (Joint Session) - Tryout #1
Sat, Feb 4: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Girls 2004 ONLY ACADEMY - Tryout #2
Sat, Feb 4: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Girls 2003 ONLY ACADEMY - Tryout #2
Sun, Feb 5: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Girls 2004 ONLY ACADEMY - Tryout #3
Sun, Feb 5: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Girls 2003 ONLY ACADEMY - Tryout #3

They have to list it for the sake of appearances but rest assured, they probably already know who they will take as soon as they see who shows up. If your kid is good enough to be on a DA roster, the coaches already know her or of her. Basically what US soccer is talking about. There will be very few players to come out of nowhere and make these teams.

Its the best of the best the top 1% that are made for DA. The rest can play ECNL.

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3 subs as per international rules. Then there's players #19-23+ that don't even dress or travel to games.

Again, this is false. the rules state that there are '3 substitution opportunities' this doesn't include half time.
So the coach can make subs on any 3 occasions, and can make any number of subs at that time.

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te:
Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
From U.S. Soccer's GDA FAQs:
"The Girls' Development Academy firmly believes that the traditional open tryout is a highly flawed and ineffective model for player identification and evaluation. The expectation is that Academy clubs move to using a more systematic scouting model to identify and recruit new talents and invite these players to trial for an extended period with the current player pool."

The LA Premier FC tryouts below sure look a lot like the old highly flawed and ineffective model.....

The tryout season is upon us at LA Premier.
This tryout is for girls born in 2003 and 2004, wishing to play in the US Girls Academy.

Held at La Canada HS Stadium Field.

We encourage players to attend all tryouts if possible.
Check-in is 15 minutes before your start time and pre-registration is strongly advised.

Fri, Feb 3: 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Girls 2003 and 2004 ACADEMY (Joint Session) - Tryout #1
Sat, Feb 4: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Girls 2004 ONLY ACADEMY - Tryout #2
Sat, Feb 4: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Girls 2003 ONLY ACADEMY - Tryout #2
Sun, Feb 5: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Girls 2004 ONLY ACADEMY - Tryout #3
Sun, Feb 5: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Girls 2003 ONLY ACADEMY - Tryout #3

They have to list it for the sake of appearances but rest assured, they probably already know who they will take as soon as they see who shows up. If your kid is good enough to be on a DA roster, the coaches already know her or of her. Basically what US soccer is talking about. There will be very few players to come out of nowhere and make these teams.

Its the best of the best the top 1% that are made for DA. The rest can play ECNL.

Unfortunately not for the top 1%, two GDA teams in Massachusetts alone. At our club there are 3 or 4 players on the top team that are 1% players, but they need 23 to make a team...... Should have had one team for ALL of New England!! Or had one team for Region 1, One for region 2, etc. This is just a REPLACEMENT of ECNL.

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go to the source rather than listen to TS posters

https://ussoccer.app.box.com/s/ddh3x...c3dep1i97t0q5h

2. Substitutions: All U-15/16 and U-17/18 Academy games will have a maximum of five (5) substitutions per game with no re-entry across three “opportunities”. U-13, U-14 Academy games will have a maximum of seven (7) substitutions per game with no re-entry across three “opportunities”. The U-12 Academy games will have unlimited substitutions with re-entry.
3. Substitutions are allowed at any stoppage. Games shall follow the Technical Framework
provided for at the beginning of each Academy season in the Game Day Guide.
4. Head Injury Substitution: Effective January 1, 2016 the Academy has implemented a rule change to allow a player who is suspected to have suffered a head injury to be substituted while being evaluated. The substitution for the evaluation of the concussion/head injury will not count against the
team’s total number of allowed substitutions/substitution moments in the Academy game. However, a
team must be in possession of at least one (1) substitution and one (1) substitution moment to implement this temporary substitution (applicable in U-13 through U-17/18 games only).

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Unfortunately not for the top 1%, two GDA teams in Massachusetts alone. At our club there are 3 or 4 players on the top team that are 1% players, but they need 23 to make a team...... Should have had one team for ALL of New England!! Or had one team for Region 1, One for region 2, etc. This is just a REPLACEMENT of ECNL.

Of course it is, always was, and this expansion of one more team makes it very clear. Clubs now have to find nearly 100 "top" players, 200 in MA. MA doesn't have 200 "top D1" players, a handful of NT players max...the rest are practice players for the top 1%. USSF only cares about the top 1% but expects the same sacrifices of the remaining 99%. Don't be fooled people...

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Unfortunately not for the top 1%, two GDA teams in Massachusetts alone. At our club there are 3 or 4 players on the top team that are 1% players, but they need 23 to make a team...... Should have had one team for ALL of New England!! Or had one team for Region 1, One for region 2, etc. This is just a REPLACEMENT of ECNL.

Who the heck can be on an all new england or worse, all region 1 team? It is logistically impossible. And who do they compete against? They are going to fly to other regions to play kid soccer? The travel is already too much with the current groupings.

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My D plays for the top team at one of the clubs with GDA & ECNL designations (but at younger age group). There is a chance she'll have to choose between the two options, if indeed the club retains both licenses. From all we've read and heard, the travel, cost and competition will be similar, yet GDA requires her to give up HS and other sports for the 1 and 10,000 chance of making NT down the road. Decision made right there. If she has to choose based on that criteria , no way she chooses GDA. The only way that changes is if ECNL (or whatever the top alternative league is) falls off the map competitively or the financial/travel burden grows much more than it is.

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USSF only cares about the top 1% but expects the same sacrifices of the remaining 99%.

US soccer cares about the money, and wresting control from ECNL.

If it were really about the top .05% then they wouldn't have copied DAP, which isn't working great, or ECNL, whose problems are well documented. They would have set up smaller regional leagues with multiple ages per team, or funded regional residential academies, or done something different, hoping to get a different-better result. Lack of money isn't an issue. They can increase fees on everyone and raise millions.

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US soccer cares about the money, and wresting control from ECNL.

If it were really about the top .05% then they wouldn't have copied DAP, which isn't working great, or ECNL, whose problems are well documented. They would have set up smaller regional leagues with multiple ages per team, or funded regional residential academies, or done something different, hoping to get a different-better result. Lack of money isn't an issue. They can increase fees on everyone and raise millions.

Who wants to pay fees so someones superstar can go to soccer boarding school?
That is a very tough sell. These is no MLS on the girl's side to fund academy teams.

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US soccer cares about the money, and wresting control from ECNL.

If it were really about the top .05% then they wouldn't have copied DAP, which isn't working great, or ECNL, whose problems are well documented. They would have set up smaller regional leagues with multiple ages per team, or funded regional residential academies, or done something different, hoping to get a different-better result. Lack of money isn't an issue. They can increase fees on everyone and raise millions.

OP here - yes of course absolutely there's that as well. My D and many others are on her team (who would be a GDA target) are not fooled by any of it. I suspect many others aren't as well as teh flaws seem obvious - but I suppose there's no predicting for the guilable or parental egos (I think the only two that may try out on my D's team have whack parents). The fact that a few clubs have dropped out before it even began tells me even some clubs doubt it's likelihood of success

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Who wants to pay fees so someones superstar can go to soccer boarding school?
That is a very tough sell. These is no MLS on the girl's side to fund academy teams.

We don't have a choice. Players register with Mass and US soccer, pay what they charge, and they spend it how they choose. Town teams, who may never play at Lancaster, have certainly contributed.

If they increased fees a bit on everyone to raise money to fund 100-200 NT level prospects the increase would be minimal.

Not gonna happen because this leaves ECNL intact, and doesn't increase their control and power enough.

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We don't have a choice. Players register with Mass and US soccer, pay what they charge, and they spend it how they choose. Town teams, who may never play at Lancaster, have certainly contributed.

If they increased fees a bit on everyone to raise money to fund 100-200 NT level prospects the increase would be minimal.

Not gonna happen because this leaves ECNL intact, and doesn't increase their control and power enough.

Parents are already maxed out on fees and if bad enough to pay to maintain fields your kid can't use. Paying for someone else's child to attend a fancy soccer boarding school for will be infuriating.

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Parents are already maxed out on fees and if bad enough to pay to maintain fields your kid can't use. Paying for someone else's child to attend a fancy soccer boarding school for will be infuriating.

If USSF did something vastly different and smaller they could afford to pay most of it themselves. This is about taking over ECNL

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If USSF did something vastly different and smaller they could afford to pay most of it themselves. This is about taking over ECNL

Well if us soccer does not want to pay for it and ecnl does not want to pay for it who does? I don't think developing athletes makes it to top of list of charitable causes. There are just too many competing causes for too few dollars. High end youth sports are pay to play unless you have $$ from pro teams or sponsors.

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Parents are already maxed out on fees and if bad enough to pay to maintain fields your kid can't use. Paying for someone else's child to attend a fancy soccer boarding school for will be infuriating.

You alwredy are if your kid is playing on a b,c,d team in any age group. You just don't know it.